port, and Pointe Seraphine, a newer terminal with aduty-free shopping mall is on the north side of the port. Taxis and tour operators meet the ships with offers to drive you around the island and show you the major sights. If you decide to take a tour, be sure you re clear on the itinerary, cost, and what s included. You may agree that admission fees are an acceptable extra charge, but stopping along the roadside to take pictures is not. Also, be sure you know whether prices are quoted in US or Eastern Caribbean dollars.
The French, Dutch, & English By 1520, St. Lucia was marked on a Vatican globe, but at that time it was merely a hideout for pirates and other bad chaps who wreacked havoc on legitimate businessmen trading in the islands. The most infamous was Fran ois Le Clerc, who the Spanish called Pie de Palo and the French labeled Jambe de Bois (leg of wood) because of his prosthetic limb.
Heritage Tours is part of the Heritage Tourism Association of St. Lucia, which encourages visits to the island s more remote areas. They also run turtle watches between March and July, when leatherback turtles come ashore at night to lay eggs in the sand on northeast-coast beaches.
The trip took two months, and the crew was exhausted by the time they reached distant relatives on the shore of the Orinoco River. After a break to recover their strength, the crew successfully rowed back to Dominica, arriving in August, 1997. Independent film-maker Eugene Jarecki captured the adventure in his documentary Quest of the Carib Canoe. Read details of the adventure online, www.avirtualdominica.com/gligli/index.html.
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